Sewing-machine table



May 15, 1928. 1,669,464

E. GEISSLER SEWING MACHINE TABLE Filed Dec. 26. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR ZWITNESS BY W E. GEISSLER SEWING MACHINE TABLE Filed Dec. 26. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 n'u ssgs 69 Kg BY v ATTORNEY Patented May 15, 1928. V

UNITED srArEs PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST GEISSLER, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGER MANUFAC- TUBING COMFANY, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JER- SEY.

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Application filed December 26, 1925. Serial No. 77,731.

This invention relates to sewing machine tables more particularly of the type having an apertured top through which the sewing machine is raised to operative position or lowered to housing position in the usual table-cavity below the table-top. l Vith tables of this type, when the sewing machine is in lowered-position, the aperture in the table-top is closed by means of a hinged panel flush with such top, so that the latter presents a smooth and unbroken appearance. To avoid contrasts of color or grain between the top and hinged panel sections and preserve the appearance of continuity it is customary to saw straight through the tabletop the full size of the desired aperture therein and to construct the panel from the sawed out piece without cutting into or patching the upper or visible surfaces of the top and panel sections in any of the subsequent operations. To provide for sustaining the weight of the free edge of the panel, it has been the practice to rabbet or undercut the free edge. of the panel and to cut and insert an additional strip of wood in the under side of the table-top along the adjacent edge of the aperture therein, such strip projecting into the undercut port-ion of the panel as a supporting ledge. These additional operations complicate and increase the cost of manufacture of the table.

The present invention has for an object to simplify the construction of a sewing machine table of thetype referred to, without ma-rring its appearance or sacrificing any of its desirable qualities or characteristics. Further objects of the invention will, in part, be obvious and, in part, be hereinafter more fully described.

The ends in view are attained by combining in one element the functions heretofore performed in hardware by separately pro vided elements. In the present instance the hinges which support the sewing machine so that it may be swung into or raised from the housing cavity in the table are provided with means for supporting the free edge of the panel-section. Preferably, the hinges are formed with under attaching flanges which are secured to the under or invisible side of the table-top at one edge of the table-top aperture; such flanges being extended across and beyond the edge of the aperture to form supporting ledges for the free edge of the panel-section. Only the reduced upper endportions of the sewing machine hinges show at the upper or visible surface of the table top, the appearance of which is enhanced by a reduction of visible hardware surfaces. Preferably, the sewing machine hinges are of the compound type permitting the bedplate of the sewing machine to be raised flush with the upper surface of the tabletop or lowered so that its hinged edge is below the panel supporting ledges referred The operations of rabbeting the free edge of the panel and insetting an additlonal piece of wood in the adjacent edge of the table-top bordering the aperture, to serve as a support for the panel, thus avoided, and a stronger and simpler. construction is effected.

In the accompanying drawings showing the invention in a preferred embodiment, Fig. 1 1s a transverse vertical sectional view through a sewing machine table embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of one of the sewing machine supporting hinges. Figs. 3 and 1- are, respectively, top and bottom plan views of the hinge. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the hinge. Figs. 6', 7 andS are perspective views of the main, intermediate, and sewing machine carrying members, respectively, of the hinge. Fig. 9 1s a top plan view of the sewing machine table shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 10 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 1, showing the means previously employed for supporting the free edge of the hinged panel section.

1, represents the table-top, 2 the legs and 3 the side-wall members of a sewing machine table embodying the invention. A rectangular aperture 4, Fig. 9, is sawed in the table-top 1 and from the sawed out piece is constructed the hinged flush panel preferably comprising the sub-sections 5", 5 and 5. Sub-section 5 is hinged to the tabletop at 6, Fig. 1. Sub-section '5 is hinged at 7 to sub-section 5 and sub-section 5 is hinged at 8 to sub-section 5; the latter two sub-sections being folda-ble to dotted line position, Fig. 1, after the sewing machine A has been raised from the cavity in the table within the side-wall members 3. The subsect-ions 5 and 5 are releasably retained in dotted line position by engagement of the edge 27 f: the bed-plate 24iisbelow the ledge 16, to operative position wherein the bed 24:"

the sewing machine hin cs 11, Fig. 9, each of which comprisesa bo y portion including side Wall members'lQ, Fig. 6, heldin spacedrelation bypins 13, 14. The side-Wall members 12 are formed with under attaching flanges 15 Whichare screwed to the under surface of the table-top 1. Theflanges 15 are formed with extensions 16 affording sup-- porting ledges for the free edge 5 of the flush panel member.

Hinged between the side-Wall menihcrs 12 on the pin 13 is the intermediate hinge member 17 which is constructed from a piece of sheet-metal bent into the form of an inverted U. To limit the rocking nmvenient of the intermediate hinge member 17 relative to the main or body-member 12 it has secured thereto a transverse stop-pin 18, the reduced ends of which extend beyond the side-Wall members ofthe piece 17 and into theareuate slots 19 in the main side-Wall members 12.

Hiiwed onthe in 20 carried b the intore b e e i I I i mediate member 17 1s a third hinge-member 21 having projecting therefrom a pin 22 adapted to PIOjBCiJlIltO a hole 23, Fig. 1,in

the sewing machine bed-plate 2 1 and be SiQ" cured therein by a set-screw 25Wl110h is seated in the groove 26 in such pin. Rocking movement of the thlrd or sewing machine 1 supporting member 21 of the hinge is liin ited by the stop-pin 18 and pivot pin 13.

virtue of this compound hinge construction the sewing machine A can he raised from housing position, wherein the upper i edge of the panel.

"name to this speci i'icatioln is substantially flush with: the table-top. The machine may also be tilted rearwardly for inspection or oiling of the parts beneath the bed-plate. 1

Heretofore it has been the practice to provide for the support ofthe panel by imdercutting or rabbeting its free edge, as

at 28, Fig. 10,and by cutting and inserting an additional stripof Wood 29 Wide enough to project inwardly beyond or across the edge of the saw cut 30 made in forming the supporting hinge secured tothe table-top adjacent the free edge of the panel and formed with a 'sup iiorting ledge for the latter. 1

2. A sewing machine table having=an -apertured top, a hinged flush panel closing the aperture in said top aud t sewing machine su 'iporting hlnge secured to the tabletop adjacent the free edge of the panel and formed with attaching flanges secured to the under side "(If the tabletop, said flanges extending beyond theedge of the tabletop bordering said aperture to In testimony whereof, I

ERNST GEI'SSLER.

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